www.newlaunches.com — Recycling old peripherals is a good idea, especially if you add a dash of creativity to it. The Mac Store in Maryland Heights, Missouri had 20 Macintosh II computers lying around gathering dust. They decided to tinker around and make a (un) comfy couch out of it.More...(Apple)

njpatel.blogspot.com — Well there you have it, Awn 0.2 has been released!With over six months since the last release, you'd think we were working on something as complicated as Gnome, but I think there are enough new features to show where the time has gone ;-).More...(Linux/Unix)

blog.foreignpolicy.com — We've all seen photos of the slightly mind-boggling displays of North Korean propaganda known as the Mass Games. Here's this week's installment taken from Wednesday's event, which had special guest South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun in attendance. The pictures are simply amazing!More...(Offbeat News)

weburbanist.com — Would it surprise you to learn that a number of houses around the world, from New York to Amsterdam, Brazil to Britain have various claims to being the skinniest house in the world? Some are the skinniest by frontage measurements, others by virtue of their narrowest point (or widest). One of these even sold for nearly a million dollars!More...(Design)